
From the Vault: Jupiter the Destroyer, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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The Throne of the Titans, a Greek Pantheon of Gods
Cronus is jealous and pyranoid, like many kings of greek myth are. He fears his own offspring. So every time rhea gives birth to one of his offspring, cronus would eat the new born child. But then zeus is born. And here rhea plays a trick on cronus. She feeds him, it's a very good trick. Insteadse she sends the real zeus off to hide away in a cave, and swaps out zeus for a stone in a blanket and hands it over to cronus who just eats it up. It's great. I really enjoyed looking up, mostly modern illustrations of what this could have looked
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